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119: 22: 228:" (NHC). This has caused later confusion, since 1967 the NHC name has been used exclusively by the forecast center. However the Project and Research Flight Facility (RFF) remained separate entities, with their own personnel, budgets, and objectives. 164:, a Weather Bureau meteorologist who had participated in Air Force hurricane reconnaissance flights as an observer, was appointed as the first director of NHRP and organized the Research Operations Base at Morrison Air Force Base (now 249:(1965), the Project also began to create computer models of hurricane circulation, formulated a statistical track program (NHC-64), wrote a manual on hurricane forecasting, and evaluate the accuracy of track forecasts. Starting with 211:
In 1959, the Project was moved to Miami and collocated with the Miami hurricane forecast office. Simpson left the Project to complete his doctoral degree and Robert Cecil Gentry was appointed NHRP director. The
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jet from the Air Force so that NHRP could continue to carry out airborne experiments on hurricanes. The combination of research project, forecast center, and aircraft facility was dubbed the "
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in recognition of it becoming a permanent institution within the Weather Bureau. This presaged the creation of the
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in 1963, but had to wait six more years before a suitable candidate storm entered their operational area.
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During the first three years of the Project, scientists used three specially instrumented Air Force
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During the 1960s, while NHRP continued to carry out research flights into hurricanes
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in response to the devastating 1954 hurricane season, which saw hurricanes
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Objectives and Basic Design of the National Hurricane Research Project
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NHRP opening day with Robert Simpson and Cecil Gentry.
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